Li Chengqian listened to the matter of Qiuzi, frowned and said, "Qiuzi~ It's far away from the Tiele Department over there, and the grassland in that area doesn't seem to be very rich, but it's the grassland of the Baidaochuan generation......"

"Bai Daochuan...... Where did the Tang Dynasty settle the Jieli tribe? Isn't that convenient, the people of Tiele go to Datang every year to graze? Your Majesty won't agree to it."

"It's not easy to say...... Li Chengqian hesitated for a moment before he smiled and spoke, "We have done our best in all aspects, we only ask if you can do it now, it's cold, and now it's already starting to die." But what we really waited for was the first snow, and we were preparing on both sides. ”

"Wanton Yehu, it's very easy to fight, don't you want it if you don't want it......" The envoy smiled, as if he had picked up a big bargain, just looked at Li Chengqian's smiling face, as if he realized something, and said after a while, "No...... Am I saying something wrong?? ”

Li Chengqian's scholar envoy's voice laughed, "Guizi~ Even people without Tiele can fight it," Seeing that the envoy's face was a little stiff, he turned to correct his color and said: "I want to borrow troops!" ”

The envoy's smile was still on his face, and he looked at Li Chengqian with the eyes of a madman: "You want to borrow troops?" ”

"Heh, you also know that now that Datang and Xue Yantuo are fighting, Tubo has promised to send troops, and the reward is 60,000 catties of refined salt......"

"Uh, six ~ sixty thousand catties of refined salt ......" The messenger looked at Li Chengqian with wide eyes, and then smiled with a grin, "It's all my own people~ The matter of borrowing soldiers, small things, small things~." ”

"That~ tell me your request."

"Requirements? Oh~" The envoy laughed happily, and after a while, he looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Plus three thousand catties of tea?" ”

"Hmm~" Li Chengqian thought for a while, looked at the envoy's expectant eyes, and said with a smile: "120,000 catties of refined salt!" Six thousand catties of tea! Tiele Department gave me 100,000 iron horsemen! ”

"There's too much salt~ 60,000 catties is enough! 50,000 cavalry. The messenger thought for a moment, "We still have many tribes there, and if Your Majesty still has extra salt in his hands, they can also help...... Fu Yun is just that, Datang, Tubo, Ashina, enough, no matter how much, it's just bullying. ”

"Bully people...... The two of them looked at each other's eyes at this time, and Li Chengqian's expression became slightly complicated, "At the beginning, when you partnered with us to bully Jieli, I didn't see you have this awareness......

"Uh......" The Yi Nan envoy was stunned.

Li Chengqian stood up slightly, his expression became serious, and after a while, he exhaled: "This is the lowest price offered by my Datang, if your envoy agrees, please contact the Khan as soon as possible, if you do not agree, in order to thank the Tiele Ministry for their help this time, there will be a good gift when you turn around, three thousand catties of tea, three thousand jars of wine, presumably this reward Zun Khan will be very satisfied." ”

"Uh, three thousand pounds of tea? ...... "There is a lot less this time, the most important thing is that the salt is gone, it is 60,000 catties of refined salt, and the cattle and horses of several pastures can't be exchanged together, but when Li Chengqian said this, the envoy's face wrinkled slightly, and he couldn't help but hesitate.

Li Chengqian looked out the window: "After the Tang Dynasty sends salt to Tubo this time, the price of salt in the Tang Dynasty will probably increase several times, and when those merchants transfer the salt to the grassland, I am afraid it will be ten times more profitable." Although it is said that the power of money is very great, everyone wants it, but once the official court tightens the salt roots, the merchants will not have salt in their hands, although it will have no impact on the Tang Dynasty, but the grassland ...... Ten times the price, I'm afraid it's even higher. ”

The Yi Nan envoy looked at him dumbfounded, as if he didn't understand.

Li Chengqian shook his head: "Is the price of salt high, some small households will start to accumulate stock, and they will buy it when they think that the price of salt will continue to soar." As for the big households, they themselves have salt stored at home, and then they eat a large amount of it, keeping the price of salt high, not to sell it at the highest time, but to start exchanging grain, Datang is now going to war, and the most lacking thing is food. Datang's salt is self-produced and sold, and the salt in his hand is exchanged for the grain in other people's hands, and the loss is nothing more than taking out more salt, so in a certain period of time, the price of salt in Datang will remain high, as for the supply and marketing of salt and grain of foreign people, it may be three catties of salt for a sheep at first, but later, two catties for a sheep, and one catty for a sheep......"

"Yes...... But...... We also have salt wells ......"

"How many of you have? A hundred, dozens of mouthfuls? How long do you have to give birth to 60,000 catties? Your output for three years! And how many tribes are around? ”

The messenger listened quietly, and Li Chengqian smiled: "But let them lose, how is it possible, only a small part can't stop the greed in their hearts, if they don't have salt, what will they do?" Do you want to rob Datang? Can they afford to mess with Datang? What about your little tribes? What will they do? At the beginning, Datang wanted to give you hundreds of thousands of catties of salt, but you didn't want it, but now everyone is sad, who are they blaming for? ”

He paused: "Now the salt of the Tang Dynasty is counted, who to give it to and not to whom, it just depends on whose sincerity, what are you fighting with Tuyuhun and Tubo every year?" Why do we go to great lengths to get along with Tugu? Isn't it just those white salt wells in Tuyuhun? ”

There was silence in the room for a long time, and Yi Nan finally spoke: "I understand." There was a resolute look in his eyes, "I, I'll go back to the tent immediately, at most before the end of the war, there can be a good result." Other than that...... Regarding the matter of Tuyuhun Salt Well, if we can, can we ......"

Li Chengqian also smiled: "Regarding the salt wells in Tuyuhun, this matter depends on Your Excellency's sincerity. ”

The two didn't say much about it after that, just chatted casually about the things around them, and then sent him out of the palace. After the carriage drove out and the side door of the palace closed, Li Chengqian looked back at the generals with a smile and smiled at each other.

It's just that after everyone broke up, Tuli flowed down on the grounds that he wanted to communicate with his son-in-law, and under the ridiculed eyes of everyone, Tuli lowered his head and kept pouring tea, until the last person came out of the house, then hurriedly closed the door, turned back to Li Chengqian, and coughed heavily: "That~son-in-law~ Look at you and me, we are all our own people, Xue Yantuo~ outsiders!" Outsiders ~ salt, how can it be given to outsiders? Ashina is also lacking. ”

Li Chengqian smiled slightly, raised his head to look at the lovely old man, and sighed for a while and said, "Okay!" But I'm going to ask you for a meadow! Seeing that Tu Li's eyes were a little difficult, Li Chengqian said in a low voice: "Dabu Sunor." ”

Tuli frowned, and said with some disgust: "Isn't that piece just a backwater beach~ a cursed place!" There is a poisonous dragon in the lake, if it is not to come out to breathe, it could have produced salt, but it is poisonous, and if you eat it, you will die! ”

Li Chengqian raised his eyebrows and spread his hands: "If you want poisonous salt, don't want it if it's not poisonous, what's the matter, you don't lose anything if this thing is a dowry." ”

Tuli slapped the table suddenly: "Are you a general person in the Ashina family?" Will that kind of dead land be used as a dowry? Hulun Lake! Three hundred miles of pasture! This is my daughter's dowry! The Dead Land! If you want to, I'll give it to you~"

As he spoke, he glanced at Li Chengqian with a smug face, and then left with a strip of 60,000 catties of salt, leaving Li Chengqian sitting in his seat a little at a loss.

Hulun Lake~Three hundred miles of grassland~Tsk~

It's good to die! 25 square kilometers of backwater Tan, the brine salt that can be fished out at your fingertips, 50 million tons of salt reserves, guarding the treasure and not knowing how to use it, you deserve to eat without salt!